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  • Subject: Re: Title lost meaning
  • From: Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 22:07:34 -0400

GREAT idea Glenn,

No offfense to anyone, but this one wandered WAY off the title (not that the
detours were unimportant or anything !!!)...

Chuck

Glenn Ericson wrote:

> I for  one get  so  much  E Mail between  the lists, Y2K stuff
> and personal  that it is necessary to  be selective and delete
> or read by  title or sender.
>
> Now  the  content under this title .
> Subject: Re: "Filibuster or just blustering" with
> Has lost its meaning .
>
> Might I  suggest we  all try to keep the title to match the subject.
>
> Glenn
> =============================================
> >Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:49:46 -0400
> >From: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@ibm.net>
> >Organization: Arbor Solutions, Inc
> >To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> >Subject: Re: "Filibuster or just blustering" with
>
> >Dean,
> >>
> >> Well, the space provided wasn't (quite) adequate for me ;-)!  We did have a
> >> _little_ problem with two programs (out of 500) that were calling one of
> our
> >> date functions with a numeric parameter of the wrong length (15,5 vs. 8,0).
> >> The fell over with a DDE on the RISC box, while functioning fine for
> _YEARS_
> >> on CISC.  A nit, but could have been a real problem had the source been
> >> lost...
> >
> >  Actually I have had problems with date specific program as well during
> >conversions, but this is really not a CISC-RISC issue as much as a Y2K
> >conversion issue.  The problem crops up because two things are being
> >changed at once. (CISC-RISC and issues related to Y2K)
> >
> >  - Larry Bolhuis
> >    Arbor Solutions, Inc
> >    lbolhui@ibm.net
> >+---
>
> Glenn
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